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From "Editions Libre Expression;;;;Sarrazin" Original text by Robert Prevost, Editions Libre Expression.
Nicolas Sarazin, Son of Nicolas and of Nicole Heron, came from the parish of St Gervais in Paris. According to Cyprien Tanguay, Nicolas was a doctor.
On April 2, 1680. he signed a marriage contract before notary Gilles Rageot with Marie-Catherine Blondeau, daughter of Francois Blondeau and Nicole Rolland. Father Charles Glandelet, then second assistant to the superior of the Quebec Seminary and future canon, blessed the union on April 23. It is the second marriage certificate recorded in the registers of the Saint Charles parish in Charlesbourg, although the parish was not extablished canonically until 1693. The bridegroom declared himself to be 25 years old.
The couples first 6 children were born in Montmagny. They had four arpents of cultivated land in the seigneury of Bellechasse and 2 horned animals according to the 1681 Census. His first son, Joseph, was a hired man in the West from July 1702 to May 1705, according to genealogist Rene Jette. His second son, Nicolas, died young. The third son, Pierre took up the dit name Despelleteaux - as his maternal grandmother was the daughter of the Governor of Nancy. Pierre married Marguerite Leduc on Nov 15, 1717. She was the daughter of Jean and Marguerite Desroches. They settled in Lachine and had a dozen children. 3 sons founded families. The fourth son, Nicolas, b 1686, married in 1715 to Marie-Louise Juillet, daughter of Louis Juillet and Catherine Celle. The fifth child was a daughter, Marie-Francoise, Born 1688. She would contract 2 marriages, the first in 1706 with Jacques Frechet, and the second, twenty years later, with Charles Deservre dit Poitevin.
In 1751, one son, Nicolas, joined 6 companions from Chateauguay, Pointe-Claire, Sorel, Sault-au-Recollet and Ile Perrot on a trade expedition to Illinois.
Shortly after Marie-Francoise was born, the family moved to Charlesbourg. Four other children were born. Francois, Born in 1692 was married in 1713 to Marie Madeleine Guyon. They had 14 children in Ange-Grdien and then in Ile Jesus. The next born, Thomas, born in 1695, was married in 1716 in Charlesbourg to Marie Agathe Choret. She was the daughter of Pierre Choret and Marie-Madeleine Giroux. They settled in Montreal and had a dozen children. The next child was, Jean Baptiste, b 1697, which nothing is known about. The last child, Genevieve died in infancy.
Nicolas Sarrazin died in 1701, and his widow remarried the same year to Pierre Jean dit Godon - to whom she gave 3 more children.
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1655
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Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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1681 |
February 24, 1681
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Montmagny, QC, Canada
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1682 |
July 28, 1682
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Montmagny, QC, Canada
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1684 |
February 26, 1684
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Montmagny, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada
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1686 |
January 12, 1686
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Montmagny, QC, Canada
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1688 |
July 18, 1688
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Montmagny, QC, Canada
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1690 |
1690
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Montmagny, QC, Canada
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1692 |
June 27, 1692
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Charlesbourg, QC, Canada
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1695 |
February 27, 1695
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Beauport, CUQ, Quebec, Canada
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